Chapter 4. The iTunes Music Store

In Chapter 3, you learned how to put the music you own on your iPod. Now it’s time to look at a cool way to obtain new music. And by cool, I can mean nothing other than Apple’s online digital music emporium, the iTunes Music Store. In the following pages, I’ll take you on a tour of The Store and show you the best ways to discover and purchase new music.

The One-Stop Shop

Apple has eschewed the typical Internet-commerce model of creating a Web site that users access through a Web browser. Although this model works reasonably well for countless merchants, it invariably requires customers to slog through Web page after Web page to find and pay for the items they desire. Apple wanted a service as immediate as the experience ...

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